SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga Friday, December 5, 2025, 14:00 pm The Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) Wildlife Resources Division has received notification of a preliminary positive Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) test result for a deer in Atkinson County. The deer, which was collected for disease monitoring, CWD and Epizootic Hemorrhagic Read more
Social Circle, Ga. Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 14:15 pm The Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) Wildlife Resources Division confirmed a second deer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). The deer, a 4.5 year-old male, was taken in Berrien County approximately 400 yards from the first CWD-positive deer Read more
Social Circle, GA Thursday, January 23, 2025, 14:30 pm The Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) has confirmed through the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories that a hunter-harvested deer sampled for routine surveillance in Lanier County has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Read more
The latest issue of the SCWDS BRIEFS Newsletter is now available online. Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study College of Veterinary Medicine The University of Georgia Athens, Georgia 30602 Volume 34 April 2018 CWD information begins on page 2
Prohibiting chronic wasting disease from entering Georgia is an ongoing effort. Anyone interested in wildlife – hunters, wildlife watchers and processors, among others – are encouraged to help keep Georgia’s quality deer herd CWD-free. CWD, a contagious neurological disease affecting deer, elk and moose, belongs to a group of diseases Read more
Prohibiting chronic wasting disease from entering Georgia is a continuous effort. This fatal disease attacks the nervous system of cervids (e.g. deer, elk and moose) and to date has been detected in 15 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. With big game hunting seasons underway across much of the nation, Read more
Prohibiting chronic wasting disease (CWD) from entering Georgia is a continuous effort. This fatal disease attacks the nervous system of cervids (e.g. deer, elk and moose) and to date has been detected in 14 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. With big game hunting seasons underway across much of the Read more
Hunters and landowners in several states realize that the threat of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is all too real. Twelve states, including Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin in the east, and two Canadian provinces have detected CWD (a fatal neurological disease) in captive and wild cervids (deer and elk). While no Read more